I went to an interesting event last week, the first of a four-part series: Discourses on Nature and Society. The discussion by a star panel of energy and environment experts was titled Energy for the Next 20 Years: Protecting the Environment and Meeting Our Demands. The series is being cosponsored by the venerable NY Academy […]
I went to an interesting show a few weeks back at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, a division of the Smithsonian Institution. Design for a Living World has been mounted with the Nature Conservancy. It’s an in-depth look at how a number of designers are putting sustainable materials to excellent use in products like wool […]
Two recent important studies, published in “Science,” are saying that biofuels are causing quite a bit more harm than good. The A.P.’s H. Josef Hebert wrote this article (appearing in “USA Today”) on one of the studies. “The researchers said that farmers under economic pressure to produce biofuels will increasingly “plow up more forest or […]